Neri Oxman
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first heard Sep 2023
last heard Sep 2023
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Meaning they have that innocence in them, they have the hunger, they have the idealism without being entitled and with understanding the systems that govern our world and understanding how to utilize these systems as Trojan horses to bring those values into the world.
There are individuals who feel comfortable in this friction between, you know, highly wondrous and dreamy and incredible fantasy renditions of what the world could be with extremely...
and extremely brilliant skills in terms of their disciplinary background.
So PhD with industrial experience in a certain field or a double major in two fields that make no sense whatsoever in their combination are things that really, really attract me.
Yes.
Technology, biology, nature, culture.
I mean, the secret to one thing is through the lens of another.
And I always believe in that kind of translational design ability to be able to see something through the lens of another and always allows you to think again, begin again, reestablish, redefine, suspend your disbelief, revisit.
And when you revisit enough times, like a hundred times or a
like 200 times and you revisit the same question through the lens of any possible discipline and any possible scenario, eventually you get to the truth.
I think like 440 million years ago, there were all these plants that the cyanobacteria, I believe actually, that was like the first extinction, right?
There were five extinctions.
We are apparently the sixth.
We are in the eye of the storm.
We are in the sixth extinction.
We are going to be extinct as we speak.
I mean, death is upon us, whether we want to admit it or not.
And actually...
They found in Argentina and in, you know, various places around the world, they found these spores of the first plants that existed on the planet.
And they emerged out of these cyanobacteria were the first, of course, and then they found these spore-based plants.
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